In Sayreville, a suburb about 50 minutes south of Manhattan, entire blocks were destroyed, a building collapsed and there was a fire at the recycling center.
The death came when a building collapsed, Millsap said.
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On Tuesday night, in another part of town, a building suddenly collapsed when the ground beneath it subsided, killing 25 people.
The horrible disaster in Bangladesh, where hundreds lost their lives as a shoddy building collapsed onto the various workforces, forces us to face an unpleasant truth.
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This week, the cost of that extreme pricing was called into question when a building in Bangladesh collapsed that housed a manufacturer of clothing for Joe Fresh, in what is certainly the worst disaster in the history of the garment industry.
"A search and rescue team may arrive at a collapsed building and throw transceivers into the rubble, hoping to detect the breathing of anyone still alive inside, " Patwari and colleagues write.
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But amid all the misery, rescuers continue to have their efforts rewarded -- a woman and her one-year-old baby were pulled almost unscathed from the rubble of a collapsed building, as was a young man who'd spent a-hundred-and-three hours without food or water.
Two brothers were pulled out of a collapsed building in Taipei after six days.
Rescue work on a collapsed building in Bangladesh has entered a sixth day, but officials say they no longer expect to find any survivors.
SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) A seamstress who survived 17 days before being rescued from a collapsed garment factory building outside of Bangladesh's capital was panicked, dehydrated and suffering from insomnia as she recovered in a hospital Saturday, but was in generally good condition, according to her doctors.
Four people have been rescued after a three-storey building collapsed in Sheffield city centre.
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In 2006, at least 15 people dead and 50 injured when a five-storey building collapsed in Dhaka.
In 2006, at least 15 people died and 50 were injured when a five-storey building collapsed in Dhaka.
BBC: Bangladesh housing collapse rescue operation called off
Rescue workers stop clearing the site of a collapsed factory building after a soldier says a woman waved her hand at them.
On Sunday damaging winds struck Fredericksburg, Virginia, and collapsed a building, injuring two people, according to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center.
Faces covered in dust, frantic groups of men trying to be large enough in number to get the job done but small enough to leave space to work in the cramped confines of a half-collapsed building.
Primark occupied a floor of the collapsed building and workers there were suppliers to the brand.
The municipal engineers are reported to have approved the safety of the building a day before it collapsed.
The company occupied a floor of the collapsed building and the workers there were suppliers to the brand.
Rescue workers in Bangladesh have stopped searching for bodies in the ruins of a four-storey building that collapsed in Dhaka on Tuesday.
BBC: Bangladesh housing collapse rescue operation called off
Police are also questioning two municipal engineers who are reported to have approved the safety of the building a day before it collapsed.
"The building collapsed like a pack of cards within three to four seconds, " Reuters news agency quoted a local resident named Ramlal as saying.
MUMBAI A building that was being constructed illegally in a Mumbai suburb collapsed, killing 35 people and injuring more than 50 others, police said Friday.
"It is not the whole building that collapsed, but just a storage area in the front part of the building, " he said.
Adam Gosling, 15, died last year on a north London building site when a wall he was told to demolish collapsed on top of him.
The building collapsed Friday with a "huge whoosh and then thump, " said Ali Jawad Bhimani, a hotel owner who lives near the building in Dar es Salaam's normally bustling Kariakoo central business district.
The building's steel lattice roof collapsed after a night of heavy rain and wind, but the council's building control officer Paul Dunstall said at the time he did not believe the weather was to blame.
The neighborhood where the building collapsed was part of a belt of more than 2, 000 illegal structures that had sprung up in the area in recent years, said Mr. Malvi, the municipal spokesman.
Angela Camon was one of the lucky ones who survived but on Tuesday was sitting in a tent after escaping from her collapsed apartment building.
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